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Beaverton is a city in Washington County,in the U.S. state of Oregon with a small portion bordering Portland in the Tualatin Valley. The city is among the main cities that make up the Portland metropolitan area. Its population was 97,494 at the 2020 census,making it the second-largest city in the county and the seventh-largest city in Oregon. Beaverton is an economic center for Washington County along with neighboring Hillsboro. It is home to the world headquarters of Nike,Inc.,although it sits outside of city limits on unincorporated county land.
Hillsboro is the fifth-largest city in the U.S. state of Oregon and is the county seat of Washington County. Situated in the Tualatin Valley on the west side of the Portland metropolitan area,the city hosts many high-technology companies,such as Intel,locally known as the Silicon Forest. At the 2020 census,the city's population was 106,447.
Vera Katz was an American Democratic politician in the state of Oregon. She was the first woman to serve as Speaker of the Oregon House of Representatives and was the 49th mayor of Portland,Oregon's most populous city. She grew up in New York City,moving to Portland in 1962,and was elected to the Oregon House in 1972. She served as mayor from 1993 to 2005.
The MAX Red Line is a light rail service in Portland,Oregon,United States,operated by TriMet as part of the MAX Light Rail system. An airport rail link,it connects Beaverton,Portland City Center and Northeast Portland to Portland International Airport. The line serves 26 stations;it interlines with the Blue Line and partially with the Green Line from Beaverton Transit Center to Gateway/Northeast 99th Avenue Transit Center and then branches to the 5.5-mile (8.9 km) Airport MAX segment to Portland International Airport station. The Red Line carried an average 10,310 passengers per weekday in September 2021,the second-busiest MAX service after the Blue Line. Its trains run for 22 hours per day with headways of up to 15 minutes.
Beaverton Transit Center is an intermodal passenger transport hub in Beaverton,Oregon,United States. Owned and operated by TriMet,it is served by bus,commuter rail,and light rail. The transit center is MAX Light Rail's 15th station eastbound on the Blue Line and western terminus on the Red Line. It is also the northern terminus of WES Commuter Rail and a hub for bus routes mostly serving the westside communities of the Portland metropolitan area. Beaverton Transit Center is situated on Southwest Lombard Avenue,just north of Southwest Canyon Road in central Beaverton,connected by walkway to Canyon Place Shopping Center. It recorded 9,709 average weekday boardings for all modes in fall 2018,making it TriMet's busiest transit center.
Samuel Francis Adams is an American politician in Portland,Oregon. Adams was mayor of Portland from 2009 to 2012 and previously served on the Portland City Council. Adams was the first openly gay mayor of a large U.S. city.
Dan Saltzman is a politician in the U.S. state of Oregon who served as a commissioner on the City Council of Portland in Portland,Oregon,from 1999 through the end of 2018. As of 2017,he had served longer on the Council than any other person since 1969.
Nancy Ann Ryles was an Oregon politician. She served in the Oregon House of Representatives,the Oregon Senate and as one of three members of the state's Public Utility Commission. She was known as an advocate for education and for equality for women and minorities. An elementary school in Beaverton is named after her.
Edward Tevis Wheeler is an American politician who has served as the mayor of Portland,Oregon since 2017. He was Oregon State Treasurer from 2010 to 2016.
Hands Across Hawthorne was a rally held at the Hawthorne Bridge in the American West Coast city of Portland,Oregon,on May 29,2011. The demonstration was in response to an attack,one week earlier,on Brad Forkner and Christopher Rosevear,a gay male couple who had been holding hands while walking across the bridge. According to the couple and the Portland Police Bureau,a group of five men followed Forkner and Rosevear along the bridge before physically assaulting them. The assault was condemned by Portland's mayor,Sam Adams,and its police chief,Mike Reese,and news of the attack spread throughout the Pacific Northwest and the United States. The attack prompted volunteers from the Q Center,a nonprofit organization that supports the LGBT community,to form street patrols as a means of monitoring Portland's downtown area.
The Portland Police Bureau (PPB),officially the Portland Bureau of Police,is the law enforcement agency of the city of Portland,the largest city in the U.S. state of Oregon. While oversight of Portland's bureaus shifts among the five City Commissioners,the mayor has historically been assigned to the Police Bureau as the police commissioner.
Sybil Virginia Plumlee was an American teacher,caseworker,and police officer who served in Portland,Oregon's Women's Protective Division,a special unit of the Portland Police Bureau,from 1947 to 1967. She is recognized as a pioneer in the law enforcement field,which has historically been dominated by men.
Charles Andrew Hales is a former American politician who served as the 52nd mayor of Portland,Oregon,from 2013 to 2017. He previously served on the Portland City Council from 1993 to 2002.
Jo Ann A. Hardesty is an American Democratic politician in the U.S. state of Oregon who served as a Portland City commissioner from 2019 to 2022. She previously served in the Oregon House of Representatives from 1995 until 2001.
Danielle Outlaw is an American law enforcement officer. She became Commissioner for the Philadelphia Police Department on February 10,2020. She previously served as chief of police for the Portland Police Bureau,in Oregon. She was the first African American woman to head the bureau in Portland,and was appointed by mayor Ted Wheeler in 2017. Outlaw previously worked for the Oakland Police Department,where she served as deputy chief from 2013 until 2017.
The End Domestic Terrorism rally,sometimes subtitled "Better Dead Than Red",was a far-right demonstration organized by the Proud Boys and held in Portland,Oregon on August 17,2019. The event,the purpose of which was to promote the idea that the "antifa" anti-fascist movement should be classified as "domestic terrorism",received national attention. The rally drew more counter-demonstrators than participants—with at least one group urging its members in advance not to attend—and ended with the Proud Boys requesting a police escort to leave.
Starting in May 2020,demonstrations over the police murder of George Floyd were held in the city of Portland,Oregon,concurrent with protests in other cities in the United States and around the world. By July 2020,many of the protests,which had been held every day since May 28,drew more than 1,000 participants. Protests continued into August,September,and October 2020,often drawing hundreds.
Charles "Chuck" Lovell is the chief of police of the Portland Police Bureau,in Portland,Oregon. He was named chief on June 8,2020,amid protests over the murder of George Floyd and police brutality. Lovell is the fourth black head of the Portland Police and the 50th police chief in PPB's history.
The Indigenous Peoples Day of Rage,often abbreviated as the Day of Rage,was a protest held in Portland,Oregon on October 11,2020. The demonstration was declared a riot by the Portland Police Bureau and saw the toppling of two statues in the South Park Blocks as well as vandalism to the Oregon Historical Society and other local businesses.
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